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Patent JP-2003185946-A (JP)
Title: Electro-mechanical grating device having continuously controllable diffraction efficiency
Inventor: BRIAN E KURUSHUUITTSU
IPC: B81B3/00
Filed: 2002-09-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electro-mechanical grating device which can provide the continuous control of diffraction efficiency and has little mechanical failure of ribbon elements.  <P>SOLUTION: This electro-mechanical grating device includes: a base having a surface; a bottom conductive layer provided above the base; providing a spacer layer which defines an upper surface and a channel having a first and a second opposing side wall and a bottom and forming the channel in the spacer layer; a plurality of ribbon elements spaced apart, disposed parallel to each other and spanning the channel, wherein the ribbon elements are fixed to the upper surface of the spacer layer on each side of the channel and each of the ribbon elements is provided with a conductive layer; and a mechanical stop provided between the bottom conductive layer and the bottom of the channel, wherein the mechanical stop forms a rigid barrier that is separated from a lower ribbon surface of the ribbon elements by a distance h<SB>0</SB>.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004109584-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus and process cartridge
Inventor: IWATA NAOTAKA
IPC: G03G15/08
Filed: 2002-09-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of performing low temperature fixation using a low melting point toner and capable of ensuring such good fixability as not to cause offset with an ordinary fixing device.  <P>SOLUTION: A toner is used which is obtained by adding 10 parts by weight of carbon black as a colorant and 1 part by weight of a negative charge type charge control agent to 75 wt.% cyclized isoprene, 25 wt.% carnauba wax and a matrix resin and carrying out comminution and classification and has a volume average particle diameter of 7.5 μm, a softening point of 82°C and a lower limit fixing temperature of 86°C. A carrier used in a developing device 4 has a particle diameter within the range of 90-20 μm. Thus, even when a Teflon (R) coated roller is used as a fixing roller 81, little toner offsets to the fixing roller side and an allowance for offset is greatly increased. A high quality image with good fixability, smoothness and high uniformity is obtained using the wax-compatible low temperature fixable toner.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004111765-A (JP)
Title: Narrow-band laser device
Inventor: SUZUKI TORU
IPC: H01S3/041
Filed: 2002-09-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a narrow-band laser device having stable spectrum characteristics.  <P>SOLUTION: This narrow-band laser device comprises narrow-band optical devices (32, 33) for setting the wavelength of laser beams (21) as a narrow band, and further comprises a heat transfer preventing means, such as a heat insulator (38) or the like for preventing heat from transferring from at least one heat generation source out of a laser chamber (12), into which a laser medium is sealed; a drive means (36) for driving an air blower in the laser chamber (12); and a cooling pipe (39) for flowing a coolant to a heat exchanger (13) in the laser chamber (12), to the narrow-band optical devices (32, 33) or a narrow-band box (31) for enclosing the narrow-band optical devices (32, 33).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003195354-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal display device, thin film transistor substrate for liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same
Inventor: KIM DONG-GYO
IPC: G02F1/1362
Filed: 2002-09-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent non-uniformity in the brightness between two partitioned areas in a liquid crystal display device.  <P>SOLUTION: A gate wire including gate lines, first and second gate electrodes and gate pads is formed on an insulating substrate. A gate insulating layer, first and second semiconductor layers and an ohmic contact layer are sequentially formed thereon. A data wire including first and second data lines, data line connecting parts, first and second source electrodes, first and second drain electrodes and data pads is formed on the ohmic contact layer. A protective film is formed on the data wiring and has contact holes respectively exposing the first and the second drain electrodes, and the gate and data pads. Pixel electrodes, and subsidiary gate and data pads are formed on the protective film layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004113837-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus and method for manufacturing developer
Inventor: OTAKI KAZUMI
IPC: G03G9/10
Filed: 2002-09-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for manufacturing developer, by which a developer that applies an electrostatic charge satisfactorily and forms an excellent image having no scatter and no stain can efficiently be manufactured stably in a short time while making the inspecting/measuring frequency as low as possible.  <P>SOLUTION: This apparatus 11 for manufacturing a two-component developer 22 by mixing toner with a carrier by agitation is characterized by being provided with a horizontal and cylindrical agitating/mixing vessel 20 having a raw material feeding port 24 and a developer discharging port 25, an agitation blade 23 fixed to a shaft 14 supported on both end walls of the vessel 20 to be rotated freely for imparting agitation force to the direction parallel to that of the shaft 14, at least three sensors 26 arranged on the inner wall of the vessel 20 for detecting the apparent magnetic permeability of the developer 22 and a control means for causing the blade 23 to agitate the toner with the carrier and the sensors 26 to continue detection of the magnetic permeability on the basis of the results detected by the sensors 26 until the developer 22 has the predetermined toner concentration.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004117539-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal panel system
Inventor: ARAMATSU YOSHIAKI
IPC: G02F1/1347
Filed: 2002-09-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To position and fix each of liquid crystal panels with high accuracy, to prevent the liquid crystal panels from getting chipped and to independently and easily exchange or maintain an arbitrary liquid crystal panel.  <P>SOLUTION: The liquid crystal panels 100i, 100j are arranged in a two-step construction with a first step inner plate 120 and a second step inner plate 140 respectively fixed to a back plate 110. A side face Ei and a back face of the first step liquid crystal panel 100i are respectively positioned and fixed by the inner plate 120 and the back plate 110. A side face Ej and a back face of the second step liquid crystal panel 100j are respectively positioned and fixed by the inner plate 140 and the inner plate 120.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004113886-A (JP)
Title: Blowdown tank
Inventor: KASAHARA JIRO
IPC: B01D45/12
Filed: 2002-09-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive blowdown tank having a simple structure which prevents generation of a whirling current in a drain reservoir and also prevents a heat loss due to a carry-under phenomenon caused by a drain.  <P>SOLUTION: A blowdown tank 1 has, in the upper part, a steam separator 8 having a two-phase fluid supplying port 7 for introducing SG (Steam Generator) blowdown water 5 and a drain reservoir 10 in the lower part. A two-phase fluid 5 is introduced in the circumferential direction of the inner circumferential surface of the separator 8 and separated into steam 13 and drain 9. Such a drain receiving box 11 is arranged below the port 7 and above the water surface 9a of the drain 9 in the reservoir 10, is formed circularly on the inner circumferential surface 2d of a tank main body 2 in order to suppress the drain 9 from whirling and has a top-opened box-shaped body.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004117181-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus for exciting surface plasmon and microscope including the same
Inventor: SAEKI TETSUO
IPC: G01N21/41
Filed: 2002-09-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus which can excite a surface plasmon in an infinitesimal area and to provide a microscope of a high resolution using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus for exciting the surface plasmon includes a light emitting means 1, a light transmission substrate 2 having a protrusion, a metal layer 3 covering a side face and a periphery of the protrusion, and a metal thin film 4 formed on a top surface of the protrusion in such a manner that an evanescent wave 5 by light transmitted through the film 4 via the substrate 2 from the means 1 can excite the surface plasmon on the film 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004113217-A (JP)
Title: Frozen fruit and method for producing the same
Inventor: MAKINO SUSUMU
IPC: A23B7/04
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain frozen fruits prevented from deteriorating color tone of the surface of fruit for a long period without performing complicated operation, excellent in retention of fruit shape and water content, and palate feeling and free from adhering to each other regardless of package form, and to provide a method for producing the frozen fruits.  <P>SOLUTION: The frozen fruits are obtained by freezing fruits. The sugar content of the fruit is Bx10° or more. A coating layer containing at least one selected from a gelling agent and thickening polysaccharides is formed on the surface of the fruit.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004128599-A (JP)
Title: Operational amplifier and speaker amplifier employing the operational amplifier
Inventor: MATSUSHIMA MAKOTO
IPC: H03F1/30
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operational amplifier for outputting a waveform with less distortion independently of change in a battery power supply V<SB>BAT</SB>.  <P>SOLUTION: The operational amplifier is provided with: a regulator for receiving supply of the battery power supply and outputting a reference voltage; and a signal ground generator for transforming the reference voltage generated by the regulator depending on a value of the battery power supply and producing a signal ground. The operational amplifier is characterized in that the operational amplifier employs the battery power supply for its drive power supply and amplifies a waveform of an input signal into a waveform based on the signal ground generated by the signal ground generator.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004121408-A (JP)
Title: Game table control device
Inventor: OZAWA TADASHI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game table control device where after grasping the total of game-related information by each kind of game machines and the total of the game-related information of the whole game tables (the whole information), they can be compared and examined with the detail of the game-related information by each kind the game machines and the detail of the game-related information by each game table (detail information).  <P>SOLUTION: Among the game tables under control, the total of the game-related information about the game tables belonging to the same kind of machine is displayed as a list by each machine kind about all the machine kinds, and the total of the game-related information about the whole game tables under control is displayed. From this state, the device performs control of displaying the detail of the game-related information about the game tables belonging to a selected machine kind and control of displaying the detail of the game-related information about the selected game table.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004125238-A (JP)
Title: Valve element for four-way switching valve, and its manufacturing method
Inventor: NAKAGAWA NOBORU
IPC: F25B41/04
Filed: 2002-10-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a valve element for a four-way switching valve having both an advantage possessed by a metallic valve element and an advantage possessed by a resin valve element, and causing no crack and breakdown in the valve element.  <P>SOLUTION: The bowl-shaped valve element 16 is used for the four-way switching valve, and is composed of a metallic core material part 20, a reinforcing metallic pin 23 integrally fixed in advance by welding by being extended so as to cross an opening end surface part of this metallic core material part 20 and a resin coating film layer 40 integrated thereafter by injection molding into the outside surface side and an annular collar part 20b of the metallic core material part 20.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004125600-A (JP)
Title: Car body speed detector
Inventor: KOJIMA TORU
IPC: B60T8/70
Filed: 2002-10-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set an acceleration speed limitation value with improved response properties immediately after control start in ABS and TCS without using any acceleration sensors.  <P>SOLUTION: The car body speed detector comprises a wheel speed detection means 41 for detecting a wheel speed, a wheel acceleration/deceleration speed detection means 42 for detecting a wheel acceleration/deceleration speed, a road friction state detection means 43 and an acceleration/deceleration speed limitation value setting means 44 for setting the acceleration/deceleration speed limitation value of a car body speed, based on the wheel acceleration/deceleration speed detected by the wheel acceleration/deceleration speed detection means 42, and a car body speed calculation means 45 for calculating a car body speed based on a wheel speed detected by the wheel speed detection means 41 and an acceleration/deceleration speed limitation value set by the acceleration/deceleration speed limitation value setting means 44.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004126916-A (JP)
Title: Receivable transfer system, receivable sellout device, debt factoring device, receivable transfer method, receivable sellout method, and debt factoring method
Inventor: TAKANO TOSHIAKI
IPC: G06Q40/00
Filed: 2002-10-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a receivable transfer system capable of changing the payment condition of a receivable involving credit to installment payment and protecting the personal information of a debtor.  <P>SOLUTION: This receivable transfer system for transferring the receivable with credit to a third party comprises a receivable sellout means for transmitting, according to an offer of payment condition change by the debtor, change information related to the content of the receivable from a creditor to the third party through a communication network, thereby making the third party collate the content of the credit with the transfer condition of the third party; and a debt factoring means for transferring a new payment condition formed by the third party based on the result of the collation by the transfer condition from the creditor to the debtor, and making the third party acquire, when the debtor accepts this payment condition, the content of the receivables from the creditor as it is with the information related to the acceptance.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004123969-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing metallic powder coating material
Inventor: OKAZAKI HARUHIKO
IPC: C09D5/29
Filed: 2002-10-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a metallic powder coating material in which a metallic pigment is adsorbed on the surface of powder coating particles such that the powder coating material and the metallic pigment are not allowed to separately behave at electrostatic coating.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the metallic powder coating material comprises mixing by agitation a liquid in which, in an organic solvent A which can dissolve main component resins of both a powder coating material (a) and a powder coating material (b), at least the main component resin of the powder coating material (a) is dissolved, and the metallic pigment is dispersed, with a liquid in which, in an organic solvent B which is a non-solvent or a poor solvent for the main component resins of both the powder coating material (a) and the powder coating material (b) and can dissolve homogeneously in an optional ratio with the organic solvent A, the powder coating material (b) is dispersed. It further comprises forming a fine particle dispersed liquid by phase-inversely emulsifying at least the main component resin of the powder coating material (a) to form a coating layer on each metallic pigment particle surface and entangle them on each particle surface of the powder coating material (b), separating fine particles from the fine particle dispersed liquid, and drying them.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004122342-A (JP)
Title: Compression tool for tube fitting
Inventor: OYA HIROSHI
IPC: B25B27/02
Filed: 2002-10-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compression tool capable of solving a point at issue of a conventional compression tool and fastening works of a plurality of sizes without exchanging a work holding member (holder) and simple in operation.  <P>SOLUTION: This compression tool for a tube fitting constitutes its characteristic feature of using a torsion coil spring as a tool to compress the tube fitting by holding it in the axial direction and a mechanism to energize a plurality of pipes and the tube fittings to apply to in such a way to clamp them against their sizes (outer diameters) of the pipes and tube fittings on outer peripheries of the pipes and the tube fittings by holder parts A and B having semi-circular arc shape parts.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004133037-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus and information processing method
Inventor: SUZUKI HIDEKI
IPC: B41J29/38
Filed: 2002-10-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus and information processing method which prevent the effects of noise resulting from an output of each high voltage power source and the effects of noise caused when discharge occurs from a recording medium stripped and charged in the course of the running of the medium, and which correctly read and write information.  <P>SOLUTION: After power supply is stopped from the high voltage power sources to a charger, a development unit, and a transfer unit (reference to a charging output VPr, a development output VDv, a transfer output VTr), access to a nonvolatile storage element which stores the status information of the apparatus (reference to read data signal) is enabled.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004131588-A (JP)
Title: Ultraviolet-curing ink and method for forming image
Inventor: NAKAJIMA ATSUSHI
IPC: C09D11/38
Filed: 2002-10-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ultraviolet-curing ink which can be delivered stably with good shooting accuracy, and a method for forming a highly accurate image by using the ink.  <P>SOLUTION: The ultraviolet-curing ink contains at least a pigment, a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, and it has a viscosity fluctuation range of 5 mPa×s or less under shear rates between 10(1/s) and 1,000(1/s) at 25°C, and a surface tension at 25°C of 26-38 mN/m.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004099163-A (JP)
Title: Perforated spoon type cap and piston type fixture for weaning food
Inventor: MINAGAWA KUMIKO
IPC: B65D25/20
Filed: 2002-09-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small child with weaning food safely and hygienically.  <P>SOLUTION: There is provided a perforated synthetic resin spoon type cap and piston type fixture, which serves as a weaning food fixture. The perforated spoon type cap 1 is attached to the piston type fixture 3. Weaning food is put into a cylinder container 4, a piston rod 6 is placed on a table or the like, and a push head 5 is pushed. Thus, the weaning food is squeezed through the perforation 2 of the spoon type cap.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004130488-A (JP)
Title: Manipulator
Inventor: YANAGIMOTO ATSUKUNI
IPC: B25J15/00
Filed: 2002-10-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manipulator that drives a grappling section and opens or closes a finger member with one driving source and realizes stable release of the grappling of work.  <P>SOLUTION: The manipulator comprises the grappling section 1 having a plurality of finger members 10, a fluid pressure cylinder device 3, a cam mechanism 2 for realizing six states by telescopic operations of two reciprocations of the cylinder device 3, and a power transmitting mechanism 50 for transmitting an operation of the cam mechanism 2 to the finger members 10 and holding the finger members 10 in both close and open states. The cam mechanism 2 has a control means 4 for controlling an output to the power transmitting mechanism 50 by the first telescopic operation of the cylinder device 3 and the second telescopic operation of the cylinder device 3. The cam mechanism 2 performs the first state to the fourth state sequentially by the first telescopic operation of the cylinder device 3, and performs the fourth state to the first state through the sixth state sequentially by the second telescopic operation of the cylinder device 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004131033-A (JP)
Title: Air-conditioner
Inventor: IEDA HISASHI
IPC: B60H1/22
Filed: 2002-10-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent significant deterioration of air-conditioning feeling when the operation mode is switched.  <P>SOLUTION: When switching the operation mode from the mode different from the cooling mode to the cooling operation mode, the opening SW of an air mix door 14 is gradually decreased to 0% so as to gradually increase cooling airflow. When switching the operation mode from the mode different from the heating mode to the heating operation mode, the opening SW of the air mix door 14 is gradually increased to 100% so as to gradually increase heating airflow. This can avoid a sudden change in the temperature of the air discharged into the room, thereby preventing the significant deterioration of air-conditioning feeling.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003201745-A (JP)
Title: Termite prevention method and termite prevention structure
Inventor: IZUMI SABURO
IPC: A01M29/34
Filed: 2002-10-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a termite prevention method and a termite prevention structure capable of promoting workability in a construction site and sufficiently ensuring the effect of termite prevention.  <P>SOLUTION: A termite prevention sheet 11 is laid between the upper surface of a rising section 211 of a foundation and a floor section 22. The outdoor side end 111 of the termite prevention sheet 11 is fixed on an exterior wall panel 230 of an exterior wall 23, and the indoor side end 112 of the termite prevention sheet 11 is stuck on the lower surface of a floor panel 220 of the floor section 22. The upper end of the outdoor side end 111 of the termite prevention sheet 11 is covered with a waterproof moisture transmission sheet 231, and a throating 12 having a termite prevention return 122 is mounted downward of the upper end of the outdoor side end 111.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004138768-A (JP)
Title: Image input-output device and method for reading image information thereof
Inventor: IZUMI YOSHIHIRO
IPC: H04N1/028
Filed: 2002-10-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new image input-output device which can be made thin.  <P>SOLUTION: The image input-output device 100 is provided with an image information detection part 130 for detecting the image information by receiving the reflection light L of the light L emitted to an image information detecting object 200, and a self-luminous type image display part 120 for displaying an image based on the image information detected by the image information detection part 130, which are integrally provided in a front side and back side. The self-luminous type image display part 120 forms an image information detecting light source for emitting the light L to the image information detecting object 200 via the image information detection part 130.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO